{"id":23987,"date":"2017-03-21T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=23987"},"modified":"2017-03-20T23:23:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T04:23:02","slug":"apsu-professor-christopher-bailey-joins-vocal-group-tenore-on-north-american-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2017\/03\/21\/apsu-professor-christopher-bailey-joins-vocal-group-tenore-on-north-american-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU professor Christopher Bailey joins vocal group Tenore on North American tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Austin Peay State University associate professor of theatre and dance Christopher Bailey had the opportunity to tour North America as a member of the award-winning vocal group Tenore, this past January.<\/p>\n

Bailey joined as a reserve member of the four-man group for the January leg of its \u201cThe Impossible Dream\u201d tour, performing in seven western states, as well as Canada. Bailey was featured on dates at, among others, venues in Los Angeles, New Orleans and Edmonton, Alberta.<\/p>\n

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APSU’s Christopher Bailey<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cOne of the members of the group had been unable to perform due to illness, so I had sort of been on-call in case of a situation like what ended up happening,\u201d Bailey said. \u201cI got the call, and I ended up performing on 22 shows, with the possibility of doing 10 or so more before Tenore concludes their tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group\u2019s third album, \u201cThe Impossible Dream\u201d is a tribute to Broadway, featuring classic songs like \u201cAlmost Like Being in Love,\u201d \u201cI Dreamed a Dream\u201d and \u201cClimb Every Mountain.\u201d Bailey joined Tenore on 17 of their 19 songs, testing his abilities with a short turn-around from phone call to final call in his debut performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was asked to join and I sort of had to learn the songs by myself because they were already on tour by that time,\u201d Bailey said. \u201cBy the time I joined them, I had time for just one practice with the other members before we had to take the stage. It was definitely a challenge to learn everything I needed to know in a vacuum like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each member of Tenore has the opportunity to perform a solo during the show, with Bailey\u2019s chance coming during a solo performance of \u201cOver The Rainbow,\u201d a ballad from the 1939 movie \u201cThe Wizard of Oz.\u201d Bailey, who received his PhD in fine arts from Texas Tech University, said he had a unique brush with fame during a performance in Texas when he was approached by an audience member touched by his performance of the song originally made famous by Judy Garland.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had just finished a show in Corpus Christi when I was approached by an older woman who gave me a big hug during our meet and greet session and told me she was the goddaughter of Billie Burke, who played Glinda the Good Witch in \u2018The Wizard of Oz,\u2019\u201d Bailey said. \u201cShe told me she was happy to hear me perform, and that it made her happy to know that I was keeping her godmother\u2019s legacy alive by performing that song.\u201d<\/p>\n

On off-days in the cities in which they performed, Bailey said he and his Tenore groupmates held free-of-charge workshops at area colleges and high schools. Bailey said the workshops were an opportunity to help aspiring young singers, as well as let students know a little more about his day job at Austin Peay.<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely put out a few Austin Peay brochures at each of the schools we stopped at,\u201d Bailey joked. \u201cBut mostly, the workshops were a chance to work with aspiring young singers. I know how I would have felt if I was their age and a recording artist took the time to stop and work with me, so the workshops were really valuable experiences for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bailey is an in-demand singer, composer and music director, joining singer and Broadway actress (\u201cWicked\u201d) Kristin Chenoweth as a background vocalist for her December 2015 concerts at Schermohorn Symphony Center in Nashville, as well as performing on new cast recordings for Disney and Music Theatre International\u2019s \u201cThe Little Mermaid (December 2015)\u201d and \u201cA Chorus Line (February 2016).\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2016, Bailey served as a featured background vocalist with internationally renowned vocal group, Celtic Woman. Bailey joined the group as they continued their \u201cDestiny\u201d world tour with two shows in Nashville at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center\u2019s Jackson Hall.<\/p>\n

For more information on APSU\u2019s Department of Theatre and Dance, visit www.apsu.edu\/theatre-dance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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